One of the "Anti-Trippers" is on another forum talking about a forthcoming trip to China FFS!
I should probably stop reading this thread, that said, if this is a reference to yours truly, my proposed journey to China would be as part of my partner's once-in-10-year pilgrimage to see her family. It is regrettable and sounds rather dramatic but the fact of the matter is we'd have to fly the distance or fail seeing her parents again before they die. I believe Monbiot calls them 'love miles'.
Otherwise, we never set foot on an airliner, which is the choice we make, despite how nice Prague must be in the autumn.
This carbon dioxide angle of debate is a bit of a non starter as far as I am concerned and you won't get a mucher greener person than me. I bet if your lives were put under scutinity from an environmental perspective you would all be capable of criticism. As much as I hate biblical quotiations 'Let he without sin cast the first stone'.
The problem with this thinking is that it lets everybody off the hook, we can pollute all that we want without censure because even those hairy greenies fart methane and exhale CO2 (weirdly an argument used with apparent sincerity somewhere in this thread).
Clearly that's the road to oblivion, if also quite frighteningly the one chosen by our respective governments.
As I said before, we are all of us hypocrites. If we are to stave off climate change, the aim is surely to become the slightest hypocrites that we can each reasonably achieve.
It's up to us an individuals to decide what that means for us, and perhaps it is fair that some responsibility lies on our comrades or critics to nudge us in the right direction. We are all in the same boat, after all.
With that, I'll stop being one of those people who repeats himself!
